CRT Capital Group has begun winding down its mortgage research division, Sterne Agee CRT, casting a shadow over publicly traded residential stocks and dashing the hopes of any nonbanks that were hoping to pull off an initial public offering this year. As one equities researcher told Inside Mortgage Finance this week: “It’s not fun being a stock analyst these days.” And commenting on the recent – and unexpected – drop in rates, he added: “Some of these firms may get smoked.” Four years ago, Sterne Agee was...
Given the extensive and uncertain administrative, civil and contractual liabilities mortgage lenders are confronted with under the new TRID disclosure regime, anxiety about the inevitable mistakes that will occur remain high. But there are a few remedies available to lenders. During a presentation at the recent American Bankers Association regulatory compliance conference in San Diego, Rich Horn, founding attorney at Rich Horn Legal in Washington, DC, spelled out just what options exist for mortgage lenders to “cure” loans with defects under the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s integrated-disclosure rule. “If you have liability for a TRID violation, how do...
Thanks to last week’s “Brexit” vote in the U.K. interest rates in the U.S. are tumbling again, reaching new lows for the year. In turn, lenders are celebrating the increased flow of applications while the servicing side of their businesses prepares for the worst. For servicers – especially publicly traded companies – there is a palpable fear of deep mortgage servicing rights markdowns that almost certainly will affect second-quarter results. And the timing couldn’t be worse: the rate drop comes with no room left for recovery. The second quarter has ended. Over the past year, several publicly traded mortgage firms – Ocwen, PHH Corp., Stonegate Mortgage and Walter Investment Management Corp., to name a few – have been...
BancorpSouth said it reserved $13.8 million during the first quarter of 2016 to resolve matters associated with the settlement, and noted that any additional financial impact is expected to be immaterial.
A new Inside Mortgage Finance analysis reveals that nonbank mortgage lenders have dramatically increased their share of new production over the past two years. Nonbank lenders captured an impressive 48.1 percent share of mortgage originations during the first quarter of 2016, in a database of over 170 lenders. That was up from just 39.1 percent two years ago in early 2014, and 45.2 percent in the first quarter of 2015. While new first-lien origination volume by the 88 banks in the database fell 4.0 percent from the fourth quarter of 2015, the 81 nonbanks managed...[Includes two data tables]
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